KDE 4 sound system still uses arts and doesn't work

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Stefano Crocco

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Location: Italy

Wednesday, January 23rd 2008, 9:39am

KDE 4 sound system still uses arts and doesn't work

I'm using KDE 4 (installed in parallel with KDE 3.5) on a Gentoo system with a Realtek sound card (azalia compatible), using the snd_hda_intel kernel module, and I can't get the sound system to work. The Sound System page in System Settings only shows aRts in the Device Preference page, while KInfoCenter says: "No information availlable about Soundcard". The result is that I hear no sound.

I think the problem lies in some wrong configuration of my sound card, since, trying the SuSE KDE 4 live CD, everything worked perfectly (including the sound card being listed instead of aRts in System Settings). Yet, looking at the live CD /etc directory I couldn't find any relevant difference from the Gentoo configuration. Searching google didn't yield any useful result, either.

Can anyone give me some hints about this? I know this question might belong more to the Gentoo forum than here, but I already tried asking there and I got no answer.

Thanks in advance

Stefano Crocco

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Stefano Crocco" (Jan 23rd 2008, 9:39am)

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Churli

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Posts: 2

Location: Italy - Belgium

Monday, February 4th 2008, 3:02pm

I have the same problem, but with Arch Linux: no audio.

I run kde4 compiled from svn with the script kdesvn-build.
My system use the same kernel module, snd-hda-intel, and de KInfoCenter return "No Information available about Soundcard" too.

I've got no problem using kde compiled in the same way on Ubuntu, so as i've got no problem using precompiled kde/gnome from the Arch repos on the same system.

I've already posted the problem in the italian Arch forums but, until now, we couldn't solve the problem.

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Churli

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Location: Italy - Belgium

Monday, February 4th 2008, 9:47pm

I just solved my problem and probably that's the solution for you too.

I just had to add esd in the daemons line in /etc/rc.conf, than was enough to start the daemon with $ sudo /etc/rc.d/esd start.

Probably you have to add arts instead of esd.

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